Hey! What ever happened to Octafish?

[PCIntern]

He was one of my favorite posters...

I know...that'll really piss off a few here..

[PCIntern]

2. Wrong...

he's still technically active.

And kiss my petunia...

[edhopper]

3. Oops

I must be thinking of another poster.

Will delete my post.

[PCIntern]

7. I thus retract the petunia part...for now. nt

[edhopper]

11. You were right to be indignent

as i wrongly besmirched a member.

[PCIntern]

26. You're a good guy actually...

:&lt

[edhopper]

27. Thanks

I always ask myself, what would a Republican do, and do the opposite.

[True Dough]

28. You're no Dennis Hopper

but we'll gladly take edhopper!

[edhopper]

29. He turned into

a nasty Repug, didn't he?

[Hotler]

32. I doubt it ED. I talked with him a few times through PM'S and....

he was a life long democrat before JFK was shot.

[edhopper]

37. He ended a big Republican

voted so since Reagan.

[Hotler]

48. Well bless your heart.

Have a good day.

[True Dough]

40. I honestly don't know what his politics were

Just the most famous Hopper I could think of, other than...

[edhopper]

46. okay

thanks for the kind words.

[deaniac21]

51. Correct

http://www.americanpopularculture.com/archive/politics/hopper.htm

[peekaloo]

4. Ya know, I was away for about 6 years and upon returning I almost didn't recognize this site.

I lurved that 8 sided Fish and can imagine why the either self banishment or full on boot occurred.





to the shit stirrers!

[LeftInTX]

56. Many left after Hillary got the nomination

They refused to sign TOS.

They found their own site...now that site is falling apart.

[JonLP24]

65. Octafish hasn't shown up at the other site since near the election

They don't much buy the Russia conspiracy but I know Octafish would be all over this if he were here today.

[LeftInTX]

68. He left JPR cuz he was harrassed by both the left and the right for his conspiracy theories

(I checked over there just a few minutes ago. And posted a quote from JPR downthread)

There is always Reddit

[backtoblue]

5. Last post was two years ago

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Jackpine Radical was profound, a real Democrat.
He thought ALL people are equal under the law and in spirit, even those with whom he disagreed.

The people at the website named after him who I respect have no animus toward DU or DUers.

[jberryhill]

6. They got him

He knew too much and was silenced.

Or, they bought him off.

[Me.]

8. I Suggest You Ask H20Man

[H2O Man]

30. I haven't talked

to him in a while …..since the brain injury, at least. Maybe I'll give him a call and see what he's up to.

[Me.]

35. Brain Injury?

[H2O Man]

36. Yes.

My dog was happy to see me when I got home after a few days at the Golden Gloves in the late spring. Jumped up, knocked me backwards, hit the base of my skull on a counter, was knocked out. My summer vacation was in the ICU; blood pool on brain and "dead brain matter" -- sounds like a Trump support group.

[Me.]

38. Well You Sound Like You

Good doctors or good living or both? Glad you're doing better...at least not in ICU for starters.

[PCIntern]

54. Omfg. Glad you're ok. nt

[malaise]

39. Please tell him I send a hello

[SidDithers]

9. He took his ass to JPR...

Where he found a much more willing audience for his conspiracy nonsense.

Sid

[PCIntern]

10. He's not there either anymore...

it is a shame that Americans thrive on massive numbers of books and films about intra- and inter-governmental conspiracies but refuse to admit that it is possible in the real world.

[edhopper]

12. They read books about

vampires, elfs, dragons, rogue super spies that save the world and wizard schools without those in the real world.

[jberryhill]

15. Reality is not an opinion

Believing that something is possible is an entirely different exercise from demonstrating it is probable.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

17. He was going heavy on the Russian government propaganda at the end

I can’t say DU has really lost that much since he’s been gone.

[SidDithers]

20. Yeah, see that now...

He was hot and heavy over there for a while, tho.

I never understood his appeal here. He was the most credulous poster I'd ever seen, and was demonstrably careless with sourcing, He'd post articles from odious characters like Paul Craig Roberts, or Wayne Madsen, or Don Fulsom, and didn't care that these authors were homophobes and bigots and white nationalists.

His posts about crop circles were legendary, and make for great re-reading, even to this day.

Truthfully, I miss Octa. He was one of the most entertaining posters at DU.

Sid

[Scurrilous]

34. I think of him now as Qctafish.

[LeftInTX]

58. JPR is starting a new site

The JPR founder left....

I don't know what the new site is.

[LeftInTX]

59. I just checked over at JPR.

This is a post from July. He quit posting over there.

6. He was being attacked so much by both left and right….

that he was disgusted. There’s room here for many points of view, but there are some voices that are pushing so hard against anything at all that is is unpleasant now for some of us here.

[Eliot Rosewater]

14. Your comment is appreciated. By me at least.

[SidDithers]

18. ...

Sid

[jberryhill]

16. No, he has an advisory position with this agency....

https://www.apnews.com/1966a07c5a63419fb825ed7a92cec8de

[MrsCoffee]

19. O.m.g.

[dalton99a]

23. Well, fuck Putin

[Hotler]

33. If a member of DU wondered over to JPR for awhile

dose that now make them any less of a democrat or make them a bad person?

[Codeine]

44. Well yeah, pretty much.

The place is a pigsty. Their initial burst of energy was fed entirely by Pizzagate and photoshopped images of Hillary Clinton with feces on her pants.

[Xolodno]

47. Mark that as one of those things I just don't get....

Some here have active accounts in the cess pool known as Discussionist. And I get it, its a cess pool that makes money and keeps this site mostly free...so why complain about some others who go to other boards? People are free to go where they want. But some internet puritans demand you do not have accounts in "un-approved" websites. I have an account at JPR, BECAUSE of all the negative publicity....why? Well I get curious...particularly when I see accusations with little to support it...or even worse, drag years old info into a context that doesn't fit today.

Now, I have a friend in Fresno (pretty sure you can guess his political leanings) and I think Democrats are often too conservative for me...and yet, were friends. And some here, would condemn me for having a Republican friend and not goose stepping with all Democratic ideals. In short, some want us to shut up, line up and become the Democratic "GOP".

[LeftInTX]

57. We have a few good ones that have double posted.

Many refused to agree to DU's TOS after Hillary won the nomination.

To me, indicates that they are not a Democrat.

[R B Garr]

67. One of them in particular came back with anti-Biden, anti-Kennedy

and anti-Harris spam, the same as was done here to Hillary. She made it well known that she didn’t vote for Hillary in the GE, and when pressed said she learned nothing from rooting against our nominee. If there was some lesson there she could have shared, that was what the TOS mentioned, I think, but she learned nothing. Just back to attacking Democrats.

[JonLP24]

66. He hasn't posted over there in a long time

Last I saw he was talking about Roger Stone & Donald Trump.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. The CIA did him in.

To prove it, here’s an 18,000 word piece from John Pilger.

All the dots connect if you really want them to.

[Mc Mike]

21. He kept track of a ton of in depth info, had the links right at his fingertips

when asked for any specific info, he could produce it.

His BFEE info was a big attractive feature for me on the site, in the second li'l bush term. Can't say the same for op s from the little handful of detractors who always pop up when he posted.

[Cetacea]

24. Agreed

You weren't alone.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10026962238

[Mc Mike]

25. He went out of his way to dig up an old Bertrand Russell post for me, a few years back.

Never saw him being nasty or unkind to any other post-er, either.

[Cetacea]

42. Correct

He took a lot of heat, too. A good person.

[Hotler]

31. He was an interesting read.

BCCI scandal, BFEE, Iran-Conta, and other juicy stories. I nosed around over at JPR a few times and never saw him there. I was away from here for about 2-yrs. and when I wandered back here he was gone. I would have like to read his take on the Panama Papers. Probably could have tied them back to the BCCI crooks.

[Mc Mike]

71. You're probably right about the Panama Papers / BCCI connection.

Never really went over to the Jackpine site. I hope Octa is still posting somewhere and in good shape.

[Cetacea]

22. No doubt doing better than Bugliosi

Last edited Sat Nov 24, 2018, 09:02 PM - Edit history (1)

He probably didn't feel the need to counter his nemesis any more.

(Apologies to any Bugliosi fans)

[cwydro]

41. What happened to our favorite French poster, syringis?

I miss her cartoon posts from Europe!

[Celerity]

43. I am still pretty new and her cartoons were so cool! she was a Walloon (francophone Belgian) I think

[cwydro]

50. I know, I enjoyed her posts and her perspective.

Maybe she’ll return.

[LeftInTX]

61. Someone from France was going to have to take a break due to living situations

But I looked up Syringis and don't think it's her.

Her last post was Sept 2018 and this other poster moved awhile back. (I think in 2017)

[cwydro]

64. Yeah, she posted fairly frequently, so I've noticed her absence.

Hope she’s ok.

[milestogo]

45. Ok I read this and wondered whatever happened to Octamom...

[dalton99a]

49. She hasn't been productive lately

or reproductive

[LeftInTX]

60. I recently saw an Outbrain ad on a website featuring Octomom

I was tempted to click, but knew it would take 3 hours to click through about 3,000 pictures of other grown children to see, "What her kids look like now".

[LeftInTX]

69. Here is a recent pic of the octuplets

August 2018



The girls are going through growth spurt

[rusty fender]

70. Cute kids!

I can, somewhat, identify with them because I come from a family of eight kids. We weren’t all born at the the same time, but we were close, one right after the other

But we were never this cute

[Kaleva]

52. I liked him. He was one of those member who added character to this forum.

[elocs]

53. DU is like the Hotel California: You can check in anytime you like,

but you can never leave.
I wonder how many dead people are still on the DU rolls listed as active members?

[John1956PA]

55. Ha! Great analogy. n/t

[pintobean]

62. Not really

Just since the new TOS 2 years ago.

[JonLP24]

63. He'd be all over Trump and Roger Stone

I'm sure not everything he posted checked out but most of what he posted was quite informative. I wish he didn't feed his trolls.

[joet67]

72. Did we ever find out?